Technology Evolution Path Identification Method Based on Patent Heterogeneous Data Fusion
[Research purpose]Aiming at the current problem of focusing on patent text and ignoring patent citation information in tech-nology evolution analysis,a technology evolution path identification method based on patent heterogeneous data fusion is proposed.[Re-search method]First,the Sentence-BERT model is used to extract the semantic features of patent text;second,the graph convolutional neural network model is used to fuse the semantic features of text with the structural features of citations to realize the heterogeneous data fusion to construct the patent vectors;lastly,the time windows are divided,and the k-means algorithm is used to perform the technologi-cal theme clustering of the time windows,and the technological evolution paths are constructed based on the technological theme similarity of the neighboring time windows.[Research conclusion]Taking the field of artificial intelligence as an example for empirical research,a total of four technological evolution paths are identified.Comparison with relevant authoritative reports shows that the identification results are consistent with the development status quo in the field of artificial intelligence technology,which verifies the validity and scientific of the model.